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Seneca the Younger
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Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
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To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.
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Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
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Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
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Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
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Epicurus says, gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it. And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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